St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-04
PUBLIC OPINION.
What the Mugwumps Love and Hate.
Boston Herald

neIr Tedl UaslS Is love or the good,
the true and the beautiful, and hatred
of lying, deceit and hypocrisy. And
they love and hate these things with
out distinction of party.
The Salvation Army Invited Up.
Rutland Herald.
An invitation is hereby extended to
the captain of the local detachment of
the Salvationists to spend an evening
in the Herald office, reading or writing.
If he does not agree that the racket of
his followers is such "tumultuOus and
offensive carriage" as our statute pro-
hibits, the next gentlemen we invite
will be public prosecutor.
Recommends to Reid His own Medicine.
Springfield Republican.
The New York Tribune, which ex-
ponds so much brain tissue in depre-
ciating the independent and the mug
wump, will learn something to it's ad
vantage by reading an address deliv-
cred to the students of Amherst in 1873
by one Whitelaw Reid, in which Oc-
ours this passage: eve look to the
American scholar to resist the tyranny
of party and the intolerance of politi-
cal opinion, and to maintain the act
ual freedom as we'll as the theoretical
liberty of thought"
The G. A. r.. and the President.
Gen. B. F. Fdrrar, Republican.
l am Grand Army man myself, but
| believe that Tuttle was guilty of an
internal outrage when he objected to
the presence of the president of the
United States at the national encamp-
ment. am certain, also, that futile
only spoke for himself, and, perhaps,
Il few cranks, when he intimated that
the president would be insulted if he
attended the encampment. l know
that the Grand Army men would not
insult the president of the United
States.
Eastern Money Sent to the West.
Lewiston (Me) Journal.
We recently spoke of the tremend-
Gus drain of Maine funds for Western
speculation. One of our Maine saw
ings banks reports $4,000 of funds
drawn out within short time by men
who are wild on this Western wildcat
business. How widespread this mis-
taken tendency is shown by the fact
that Boston alone has put about $780,
land companies. A gentleman has
been in Lewiston this week after sub
scriptiOns to a Western loan company
and Kansas national bank. A large
amount of Boston capital has gone in
west, and one resident of the city is a
director in no less than 81 of these in
situations. The money that is thus
placed in tue West finds it's way back
slowly. Some of it will never find its
way back. There are good invest
ments in the West, but he who invests
anywhere without investigation may
be buying tickets in lottery.
A Not Improbable Choice.
BratleborO PhOeni1.
That the republican party abounds
in fit men for presidential candidates
is unquestioned, but it is not neces-
sarily the fittest or best qualified who
is most talked about in connection
with that office. In a canvass recently
made by the Toledo Blade, one of the
most popular candidates proved to be
Robert Il. Lincoln and this fact serves
to call attention to one who, though
now living in modest retirement, en-
gagged in the duties of his professional
calling, is not unlikely, without design
the standard bearer in 1888. {.
1t is doubtless true that the son has
developed as great "a capacity for adj
for the times in which he
lives, as had the father, in his day,
when he was made the candidate of
the republican party. He has had far
greater experience in public affairs,
and as soldier, cabinet minister and
attorney, as man and citizen, is a
worthy son of his distinguished sire.
Candidate Blaine Sized Up.
Gen. JOHN Beatty in Ohio Republican State Con
0entiOn.
off the Irish question and the Irish
vote are the main things to be sought
for, then Mr.. Blaine had better seek
office in Ireland. Mr.. Blaine
is not by any means as strong as he
was in 1880. Those who know him
best, and people are getting to know
him pretty we'll, know that he is a pO-
litical Jesuit, courteous i'm manner,
cordial and plausible in speech, but
silent, crafty and INSCRIPTIONS in the
promotion of his schemes protesting
open friendship while stabbing secret
ly keen in his scent of money; not
particular as to the mode of it's acquis-
itiOn, and lavish in it's expenditure,
for his own political advancement
brainy and fertile in resource, with an
element of meanness so audacious that
it does not always provide against ex-
posture. He was Garfeld's evil genius,
his detractor while living and most ell
Oquent eulOgist when dead. He in
vOlved his administration in needless
the effects of which the country is still
suffering. He used the power confer
red by high official position to en-
force his private animOsities to execute
personal vengeance. He encouraged
his following of half breeds to strike
down Secretary FOlger for being
stalwart, and thereby elected Cleve-
land governor of New York by a ma
jOrity of 100000, and put it in the
power of the solid South to obtain con-
troll of the executive office. He will
never be forgiven in full for this
treachery, and he never ought to be.
His nomination in 1888 would simply
multiply the mugwumps of New Eng
land by 10, and these would be rein
forced in every northern state by bet
ter republicans than Blaine ever was.
He cannot carry New York. He could
not touch bottom in Indiana, and it is
doubtful if he could again carry Ohio.
In short, he is a plumed knight who
does his fighting with his jaw and en-
ploys substitute to incur the risks of
battle. We have carried him on our
shields too long. 1t is time now to
prod him with our spears. The peO-
pie have had enough of him and his
spotted record"
Mrs. Cleveland futtered quietly
Town on Massachusetts, soil Tuesday,